I posted this article on VCV Rack Official User Group in Facebook, you can follow the discussion here.I think a lot of people take this approach of recording everything (or at least try to once the idea of recording meetings is available), but you really need to think about whether it’s going to solve the problem you think you have. Meanwhile, For more similar content follow me on my Facebook page Waves ‘n Knobs.
#Blackhole macos update
I’ll update if I stumble upon something interesting. Routing signal both the ways : VCV ⇋ BlackHole ⇋DAW.Routing signal to VCV from DAW : VCV ⥳ BlackHole ⥳DAW.I’ve just started to scratch the surface and there are a lot of possibilities to explore like Though, if you really want to do away with DAW altogether, you can use an audio recording software like Audacity etc which won’t have the footprint of a DAW but would do the job.
Hardware : Two processor intensive softwares are being run simultaneously so the beefier your RAM and CPU are, the better they’ll handle the processing (and hence the latency).ĭAW : Being an Apple product LPX is optimized for MacOS hence may have an upper hand in this particular scenario but I don’t have hard numbers to prove it. This is the primary reason why VCV Bridge is deprecated and will no longer be needed after Rack v2 is released.įrom my own preliminary use (VCV ⥲ BlackHole ⥲ DAW), it seems to be working without any lag but I think the following factors may play a significant role in determining how much latency (if any) you’ll encounter - hardware configuration of your system & the DAW you use. “Cross-application audio has never been a good idea for maximizing stability and compatibility with DAWs.”
Zero Latency is a big claim as far as VCV Rack is concerned as Andrew Belt, creator of VCV rack, pointed out
#Blackhole macos driver
VADs have been notoriously few and crappy in Apple’s desktop ecosystem, the 2004 released Soundflower being the only one which got some love among music and audio nerds.īlackHole is a modern MacOS virtual audio driver with 16 channels of audio (configurable up to 256) and boasting of Zero Latency with full support for macOS Catalina.
#Blackhole macos drivers
Virtual Audio Drivers allows applications to route audio from one application to another application. It boasts of software versions of some of the most iconic eurorack modules from makers like Mutable Instruments, Vult DSP etc.Īs far as recording your jam is concerned, there are a lot of ways to write those ‘happy accidents’ onto an audio file but here we are going to discuss only one way - using a Virtual Audio Driver. It is a fine piece of software which hit its version 1.0.0 in June 2019 and is now rapidly gaining popularity. VCV Rack is a free and open-source cross-platform virtual modular synthesizer.